%0 Journal Article
%T La ñata contra el vidrio: urban violence and democratic governability in Argentina
%J Bulletin of Latin American research
%D 2000
%A Tedesco, Laura
%V 19
%N 4
%P 527-545
%X The article argues that the increase in crime and urban violence in Argentina, especially in Buenos Aires, can be explained as an outcome of the interaction of four factors: the new social relations established by neoliberalism; the incapacity of the state to resolve the social conflicts which have arisen from these new social relations; the failure to democratise the security forces; and the exclusion of a sector of society from the rights of effective democratic citizenship. The increase in crime and urban violence is, thus, analysed as a problem of governability.<p />
%G 
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 0261-3050
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0261-3050(00)00003-6